The Washington critic., 1887-09-30
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

+. NJ. Severance, cashier Of the defunct
farmers Bank OF Fayetteville, N. Y, has
been arrested, charged with embezzllng
$50,C00.
The Niagara Vinegar, Mustard and Cider
Works at Tonawanda, N. Y, were par.
TALLY burned yesterday. Loss $4,000.
One fireman was badly hurt.
The j. b. Wathen e Bro. Company, dis.
tillers, at Louisville, made an assignment
yesterday. The liabilities are placed at
$4,000. The assets are Sl25,000.
Fears are entertained for the safety OF the
Provincetown, Mass, whaling schooner
Mary G. Curran, Captain George w. Dyer.
She carried crew of seventeen men oil
told.
By the falling Of derrick at the brewery
OF w. j. Lemp, in st. Louis, yesterday,
Daniel Dinners was killed, Ferdinand Neu-
mann fatally wounded and four Others seri-
ously injured.
Wolff. sugarman & Wolff, manufac-
turers OF trousers, New York, yesterday
confessed judgments for sl,422, and the
sheriff took possession. Liabilities report
ed to be about $4,000.
Schedules in the assignment OF the firm
OF spannocchia Brothers and Dilute Span
nocchia, surviving partner, New York,
show: Liabilities, $l13,000; nominal assets,
Sl2G,O00 actual assets, So, 600.
+ The creditors OF the defunct firm OF
Mitchell, Vance Il Co, met In New York
yesterday and the receiver submitted a
statement showing liabilities of 81 200, ,525.
Assets--nominal, l,260 SOS; actual, S504,-
55s.
The annual statement issued by Messrs.
Hidalgo & Co, Of Havana, shows that the
total production Of sugar In Cuba in lSS6-s7
will amount to Cos, ,03S tons, which Is about
10000 tons less than the estimates recently
published by the mercantile papers.
Nicholas ID. Roberts, one of the partners
In the New York Amusement Exchange,
has obtained an Injunction against Jas. b.
Dickson and Wm. X. Hayden, the other
members Of the firm, restraining them from
exercising control Of the exchange.
Dolores Dartmoor, indicted for assault in
the first degree In having shot Miss Mary
Jennings, was tried at Richmond, Staten
Island, yesterday, and the jury rendered a
verdict Of guilty, and she was sentenced to
two years. imprisonment In the peniten-
tiary.
The creditors OF Francis cCabe, the Now
York alderman who escaped u trial for
bribery on the ground that he was insane,
have procured an order from Justice Van
Brunt ordering that McCabe's mental con
dition be tested by sheriff's jury, with a
view toward having committee of his es-
tate appointed.
Clifton w. Tayleure, formerly theltrI.
cal manager and now editor OF the Long
Branch, N. j., NeiUs has sued Peter Hall
Packer OF the Sea Bright Sentinel for S2O, 900
damages for libel. The suit is based ON q
communication rejecting on Mr. Tayleure,
which was published in the Sentinel.
The performance Of "Harbor Lights" was
almost concluded at the Grand Opera
House, In New York, last night, when some
AL
There was momentary excitement, aud
some ladies tainted, but order was soon re-
stored. There was no occasion for the
alarm, and the play continued. The man
who caused the panic was locked up.
The smoke from the bush fires and the
fog combined are doing q terrible amount
Of injury to trade In and around Montreal.
Work has been suspended ON the whlrves,
and all the vessels I'm the river are unable to
proceed either up or down Even the river
boats have stopped running, and there are
over fifty ocean.going steamers blocked by
the fog on the river
The threatened strike OF window glass
workers has been uyertCl. Instead OF au
advance In wages Of ten per cent, aud pay
for extras, the wOrkmGn agreed At confer
| elce IN Plttsbuig yesterday to accept i've
| per cent increase, and the manufacturers
promised to bring all outside factories Into
| employment to 1000 men who have been
| idle since the beginning Of the summer Va
cation, IN June,
Fire in Chicago Wednesday night de-
stroyed the immense box factory VI Max
well Bros, with the whole manufacturing
| plant, consisting OF u large two story brick
| building, several One-story buildings aud %
| valuable equipment Of machinery. Loss,
| $4,000. The fire spread to the plauing
| mill aud sash factory OF jrhn q. Llb5tulu
and caused q damage ot $4,000.
The college and seminary at Princeton
! on Sunday received visit from a special
| embassy sent by the students VI the Ediu-
| buTgh University 10 the students OF Prince
| ton. IIc party consists Of Professor Henry
| Dummord, Il, Il, s, author VI "Nltlrll
| Law IN the Spiritual WoJllm Professor
Simpson, NJ. ID +. X, $ Professor Grrsn-
field, NJ D., and Mcssrs. Webster and smith,
students Of the University. The object NJ
their visit to this country Is to confer with
the authorities Of Princeton with regard 90
the religious interests of the two instltu.
tions, and several meetings Sunday were
addressed by Professor Drummond aud
| others on the religious work now going on
| In the Scotch universities.